Me: “Well, life does. I have 3 active children (basketball, clubs, competitions, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc) who I’ve been watching become great people; however, that doesn’t mean I don’t see what is going on out there in our scene and that I don’t have plans of my own…”

As far as the Pennsylvania Rock Show goes, I have interviews scheduled with GONTO & Leprosy. GONTO will be discussing his recent releases and his upcoming video. Leprosy will be chatting with me about 30 years in the scene!

November 10th @ 7pm at the Rockin’ Red Barn, Peter B’s, you’ll find Mayhem for the Minis featuring Among Thorns, Zone 8, ROKBOT, Mojo Filter, & Skell for only $10. This show benefits Zoe’s New Beginnings. They provide a complimentary gift bag to parents of preemies as they leave the NICU. The gift bags include; diapers, clothing, hand sanitizer, a blanket, a novelty item and information on how to keep the baby and mom healthy.

It is the mission of Rock for Life to provide financial support to needy individuals residing in Western PA who are suffering from life threatening diseases. Rock for Life sponsors music festivals and other music-related and general fundraising events to raise the monies necessary to support its purpose.

Recipient(s) of support will be determined annually, utilizing selection criteria guidelines as adopted by the Directors. Financial support may be provided to a needy individual or a non-profit organization that supports the mission of Rock for Life.

I tried to write a review because it is worthy of being written about; however, I’m just not very good at writing reviews. Instead, please listen to the interview that I did with Jason, Johnny, and Chris about the new cd and more, below. Don’t forget to pick up your copy of the cd at your favorite download stores or at one of their shows while your at it!

Tracks

Miss Emma

Milk of Amnesia

Downward Sampson

Open Slopes

714

Big Chief

What About Drugs

In our first segment, Bill is visited by Moe, Larry, and Curly… errr Jason, Johnny Metal, and RuDawg of Fist Fight in the Parking Lot. We start out talking about the writing process and how circumstances allowed them to sit on the songs and go back to them later, we smoothly transitioned into the history of the band (yeah smoothly haha) and talking about about festivals and competitions… throughout the whole interview you get bits and pieces about their writing & recording processes. I asked about the title of the album, and got a lot of different answers (haha). They were much more forthcoming about where the band name came from.

Segment 2 starts out with a conversation about social media and websites and then we move on to learning a bit more about the pieces that make up FFITPL. Sammy or Dave? It was around this time that we learned that Chris embarrasses Fist Fight in the Parking Lot. We move on to name every band we could think of and even talk about Overlord Brom (Dethlehem) and his helmet. Somehow we even included Orko… we then move onto having them create their own super group from local musicians.

and well… ya… listen to the episode:

Bob Price was the member of Dog Day Sunrise that I couldn’t remember during the show, tattoos at Inferno Studios.

Something brand new at First Angel Media & AK Music Scene – a video interview with one of Pittsburgh’s biggest name bands! Big Atlantic took some time to sit down with Lady Jaye during a recent photo shoot to talk about their music. If you’d like to see a little behind the scenes action, look up First Angel Media’s photography page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FirstAngelMediaPhotos/.

It has been a while since we have put out a “Spotlight” article. This one is for Endeavor After, LLC. They are a Direct-to-garment Custom Apparel Printing Company. Something to note about this company is that they are owned by local musician, Robbie Perrone, and his family. Robbie is the front man and bassist for East End. You can use our coupon code “PAROCKSHOW” to get yourself 10% off of everything in your first order!

Most band members already know this, but part of being in a band is marketing yourselves. Let Endeavor After, LLC help you do just that!

From the Endeavor After, LLC Website

We are a family owned and operated, direct to garment apparel printer, specializing in t-shirt, sweatshirt & hoodie printing, located in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA.

There are many differences between DTG printing and screen printing. The main ones being the extensive color options we offer in order to deliver the maximum detail in your designs. Also….although you will receive our best pricing if you order by the dozen, we offer NO MINIMUM QUANTITY!

Adult and Youth Sizes
– Single or Double Sided
– Any color combo from Single to Full

In my last article I talked about the music scene, the movements to help it grow, the positive change……now here’s something you can do to help. Listen to stations that play local music! Bands don’t want air time so they can hear themselves on the radio, the station doesn’t call them up and tell them their song is about to play so they can drop everything they are doing and run to the radio to brag about “This is me!!”. What’s important about getting played is getting more people to hear them and decided that the song (or songs) are good enough that they want to hear them live. When you listen to a national station, hey, that’s great. But you’ll hear a lot of the same stuff on all the stations that everyone else in the world is listening to. Listening to a radio station that plays your local music is something no one outside your area is going to hear – along with the bonus of being able to tell everyone how you’ve been listening to them for years before anyone else when they do go national. The Pennsylvania Rock Show is an example of a station getting these artists out there to you. Am I the only one who likes to hear interviews with my favorite bands? You learn about the people behind the music, do you like them? Hate them? Who knows if you never heard them talk. Then you get to head out to their show and let them know you heard their podcast, or their song on the radio. That shows them you really are being supportive! Are you aware that many of the local DJ’s for Adrenaline 101 are in local bands? They know how important it is to play local music so you hear the big national bands, the big local bands, and some of the lesser known locals, too. These DJ’s are often doing this for the love of music and to support local musicians, there is not that much money in local or internet radio, if any. So you’re not hearing what they are being paid to say, you are getting a DJ who honestly loves to do their job. That’s not fake enthusiasm, that’s for real!

Is it really this simple? You can support your local music scene by just listening to the radio while you drive to work, do dishes, pay your bills online? YES!! In fact, a new addition to AK Music Scene is a constant stream of unsigned tracks from local artists that you can tune into any time you want! Let them know you appreciate it by getting those listening hours in! Any time you tune in to the music scene you are helping to support it. Maybe you like a song, so you request it, and now that band is getting recognition for their hard work and the radio wants to play more of their stuff, in turn getting them more exposure…..yeah, you’ve heard that word. It’s almost a dirt word in the music industry but THIS is the right kind of exposure that you don’t have to pay for. Well, unless you like the band enough to check them out and buy their CD’s! Here’s a list of some of the stations I know of, feel free to add to it and get it out there! Let’s tune in and turn on to the local scene you didn’t know you needed so bad!

http://www.977rocks.com/grass-roots-2/
(97.7FM The Rock Station’s show about the local music scene! These guys even broadcast other people who do radio shows to help them get more attention and strengthen the scene)